Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Business Continuity Advisor

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of relevant work experience
  • Must be able to work on-site in Jersey City office
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • High attention to detail
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Competency in collaboration, relationship building, and communication
  • Team-oriented with the ability to excel under pressure

Responsibilities

  • Manage the development and maintenance of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Plan
  • Prepare business lines for potential disruptions through effective communication
  • Coordinate tactical activities related to BCM, including Business Impact Assessments (BIA)
  • Advise on continuity strategies and risk identification
  • Identify gaps in application capability requirements and work with IT to resolve
  • Ensure compliance of Business Continuity Plans with Enterprise BCM standards
  • Support business change initiatives related to BCM

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leadership for personal development
  • Opportunity to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team environment
  • Challenging work opportunities
  • Close relationship-building with clients
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As a key contributor of operational risk management that strengthens operational resilience and trusted partner, the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Advisor is responsible to provide subject matter expertise and working directly with RBC CM, LLC, Business Units. This role ensures all Business Lines meet the maximum level of preparedness through conducting business impact analyses, developing business continuity plans, and testing strategies/ workarounds. The incumbent is responsible for conforming to RBC's Enterprise Business Continuity Risk Management (EBCRM) Standard, operational risk practices, FFIEC, FINRA, and OSFI E-21 Guideline, and industry standards to mitigate business continuity risk and coordinate tactical strategies to achieve these. The BCM Advisor also supports Business Units during disruptive events.

What will you do?
  • Provides subject matter expertise and work directly with RBC Capital Markets Business Units regarding all requirements in the Enterprise Business Continuity Risk Management (EBCRM) Standard. Specifically, new or existing business impact analysis (BIA), business continuity planning, and exercises.
    • Complete Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to identify all requirements to understand the impact of process and key dependency failures.
    • Develop Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and document recovery strategies and workarounds.
    • Conducts BCM exercises to validate planning assumptions and test controls (including work area recovery, contact exercises and simulations as required)
  • Perform internal business continuity risk controls through timely scheduling, completion and quality of BCRM requirements outlined in the EBCRM Standard.
  • Retain responsibility to ensure that all approvals are obtained. Where applicable, escalate roadblocks in a timely fashion.
  • Identify RBC CM, LLC Business Unit recovery time and point objective gaps, challenge business requirements where appropriate and assist in developing workarounds.
  • Collaborate with the Business Unit BCM Coordinator, BCM Central Team and IT Risk to identify, track, and approve remediation decision on RBC Business Unit RTO and RPO gaps.
  • Work with RBC CM, LLC Third-Party Risk Team to review exit strategies and document manual workarounds and / or alternate methods of processing for loss of critical suppliers.
  • Manage and support work area recovery sites with BCM Central Team and where appropriate, with BCM Coordinators in RBC CM, LLC Business Units.
  • Support RBC CM, LLC Business Units in preparing for and responding to incidents or crisis, and acts as Secretary to the Business Line(s) and Regional Incident Management Teams.
  • Conduct Post Incident Reviews, if IMT if activated, as appropriate.
  • Remediate known gaps, issues, risk acceptances, and action plans to conclusion and escalate systemic or material gaps through issue management to Senior Manager, Business Continuity Risk.
  • Contribute to the monitoring and risk reporting processes for RBC CM, LLC Business Units, where applicable.
  • Support the delivery of training to RBC CM, LLC Business Units, promoting understanding of key components and core BCRM artifacts and activities (e.g., BIA, Threat Risk Assessment, BCP Exercising), and their respective roles and responsibilities (e.g., activating the BCP, strategies addressing loss of key employees, interdependencies, disruption impacts).
  • Lead, conduct and participate in training through exercise types that validate plans and assumptions by exercising the interactions of people, processes, and technology risks and vulnerabilities in a consequence-free environment.
  • Retain all business continuity related documents including BIA, Threat Risk Assessment, BCP and exercise evidence and make available upon request.
  • Support first line projects, initiatives and engagements including remediation of gaps identified through Operational Resiliency Scenario Testing.
  • Remain apprised of environmental and potential business impacting BCM related risks.
  • Adhere to FFIEC, FINRA, and OSFI E-21: Operational Risk and Resilience Guideline requirements.
  • Build relationships and encourage collaboration across the greater ORM community in both segments, and with the business risk management teams.
  • Support a strong culture of risk and integrity through effective challenge and deep partnerships to promote transparency of risks and matters requiring escalation.
  • Willingness to learn and foster an environment of continuous growth.
  • Consistently demonstrate behaviors that foster a sound and sustainable risk culture and environment across the organization including strong awareness of BCM practices.


What do you need to succeed?
  • 2-4 years of relevant work experience
  • Must be able to work on-site in Jersey City office
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • A high level of attention to detail
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced and challenging environment
  • Value and possess strong competency in the following behaviors: Collaboration, Relationship Building, Communication, Integrity and Operating with Diverse and Inclusive Mindset
  • The ability to perform effectively in a team environment and excel under pressure amid demanding deadlines
  • Well-rounded set of interests and extra-curricular activities beyond academics


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to building close relationships with clients


The good-faith expected salary range for the above position is $100,000- $115,000 depending on factors including but not limited to the candidate's experience, skills, registration status; market conditions; and business needs. This salary range does not include other elements of total compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits such as a 401(k) program with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; and paid time-off plan.

RBC's compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:
  • Drives RBC's high-performance culture
  • Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
  • Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value


Job Skills
Adaptability, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Emerging Technologies, Group Problem Solving, Information Technology Trends, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Long Term Planning, Oral Communications, Organizational Change Management, Strategic Thinking

Additional Job Details

Address:

GOLDMAN SACHS TOWER, 30 HUDSON STREET:JERSEY CITY

City:

Jersey City

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-05-11

Application Deadline:

2026-08-03
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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